FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

[Jim Pingle]

On 2/27/2010 9:09 PM, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 27 Feb 2010, at 20:29, Robert Watson wrote:
> Progress on supporting 11n with atheros cards is on going. There's much more to it than adapting the rate control algorithm. Please stay tuned.

Are you aware if similar work ongoing for the mwl(4) based 802.11n
cards? I picked up a couple cheap this past week and have them working
with hostapd but, as with the OP in the thread, only with G rates.

The ifconfig[1] output suggests that it is using 40MHz wide ht channels
but devices only associate at 54Mbps[2].

Jim

[1] ifconfig mwl0_wlan1
mwl0_wlan1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
mtu 1500
 ether 00:01:36:17:96:0e
 inet6 fe80::201:36ff:fe17:960e%mwl0_wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
 inet 192.168.15.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.15.255
 nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11na <hostap>
 status: running
 ssid WatchTower channel 100 (5500 MHz 11a ht/40+) bssid 00:01:36:17:96:0e
 regdomain DEBUG indoor authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 3
 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 14 scanvalid 60
 ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 4 shortgi smps burst dtimperiod 1


[2] ifconfig mwl0_wlan1 list sta (w/addr removed)
AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
1  120  54M 33.0    0   1537  25952 EP   A       RSN (rssi 68:20:20 nf
0:0:0)